Construction Graduate Spotlight - Jordan Lyons
Student Message
" Don’t worry so much about the destination.
When you get to work a career that you love and that you excel at, with people that you respect and that respect you, it sounds cliché but the journey really is more important."
~ Jordan Lyons, Class of 2017
Signature Project
Hamlin Water Reclamation Facility and Master Pump Station
Description of project/metrics:
- New 5.0 MGD facility includes all systems such as a preliminary treatment structure with screening, grit, and odor control, activated sludge treatment train with BNR process and diffused aeration, process air blower system and building, secondary clarifiers and clarifier splitter box, plant pump stations, tertiary filters, chlorine contact tank, chemical feed and storage systems, sludge holding tanks, gravity belt thickener equipment, a 5-million-gallon ground storage tank, and a variety of pumps (NRCY, Scum, RAS, WAS, VT Transfer, VT HSP).
- 3-year green field construction project
- $110 million
- Included in this project is 3,600 linear feet of 36” diameter off-site force main and an off-site, $8 million master pump station complete with a CIP wet well, electrical building, and odor control system.
- Wharton-Smith is providing general contracting services at the Hamlin Water Reclamation Facility for the Orange County Board of Commissioners.
"I am the Assistant Project Manager on the project in charge of project team coordination, including over 100 subcontractors and vendors. I was brought onto the project to coordinate the plant start up, and to manage the construction of the Master Pump Station."
Current Role & Career Progression
Assistant Project Manager,
Wharton-Smith, Inc.
Career progression:
- Project Intern
- Project Engineer Technician
- Project Engineer
- Assistant Project Manager (current)
Career Aspirations
"My next career goal would be to get to Project Manager and continue to manage projects to the high standards that Wharton-Smith continues to produce."
